There are many different reasons to stay on top of your credit report, but many people don’t check to see if they have been mistakenly listed as deceased.

It can ruin your credit and cause a lot of problems. But a lot of people don’t worry about identity theft until it happens. This is a topic KPRC 2 Investigator Amy Davis gets questions about. The number one way to protect yourself from identity theft is to check what’s going on with your financial information and do it often.

A low credit score can hurt your ability to take out a loan, secure a good interest rate, or increase a credit card spending limit.

A significant number of U.S. consumers will have their medical collection debt dropped from their credit report, the nation's biggest credit reporting bureaus announced Friday.